I received my master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2009. I am an editor at Creators Syndicate and founder of the site, The Daily Saint. From 2010 to 2012, I was a digital health reporter for ABCNews.com. I have freelanced for several publications and am currently working on my first book, titled “The Science of Stars.” I was selected as a 2013 National Health Journalism Fellow, where I will investigate HIV hot spots in America.

Articles

HIV-Positive Woman Seeks to Reduce Stigma

Once addicted to crack cocaine, Sabrina Heard now works with Women's Collective, a D.C.-based organization that seeks to meet the health needs of low-income women, girls and those living with HIV/AIDS by reducing the barriers to care and strengthening networks of support.

A boy shoots a basketball into a makeshift basket made from a milk crate and attached to a vacant row house in Baltimore, April 8, 2013. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo

HIV Hot Spots a Stark Reminder of Deadly Disease

Researchers enlisted local pharmacies in the Bronx and Manhattan to offer free rapid HIV testing to any interested passerby. The disease thrives in some of the most impoverished parts of major cities in the United States with many people not even knowing they are infected.

HIV Hot Spots in America

“HIV is the face of the forgotten people in this country,” Dr. Carlos Del Rio, an Atlanta-based AIDS expert, told me last February. Nevertheless, there continue to be "hot spots” where the disease thrives. Those areas are some of the most impoverished parts of major cities in the U.S.